Dictionary

propledge en · ADJ

Etymology

From pro- + pledge.

Meanings

1. In favor of a particular pledge.
   • Patrick not only used Facebook extensively to promote his own propledge writings, but he became quite adept at concocting framing introductions to other authors' pieces he posted there as a means of promoting the pledge. 2018, Patrick Walker, Bernie or Bust: Pioneers of Electoral Revolt, page 51:
   • It was an issue of great personal importance to young men who thought they might be drafted, and possibly killed, in a war they regarded as immoral. Janis and Rausch (1970) tested for selective exposure to propledge and antipledge communications among four different kinds of Yale students: those who immediately refused to sign the , those who refused after some deliberation, those who favored the pledge and said they might sign, and those who had already signed it. 1978, Jonathan L. Freedman, David O. Sears, J. Merrill Carlsmith, Social Psychology, page 363:
   • Joseph Curran's National Maritime Union was particularly active, donating money and manpower to help get out the propledge vote in the Detroit area. 2003, Nelson Lichtenstein, Labor's War At Home: The CIO In World War II, page 196:

Forms

Antonyms

antipledge